Trumbull Art Gallery
The Trumbull Art Gallery is a non-profit corporation created in 1957 by a group of dedicated art patrons and practitioners interested in the promotion of the visual arts and artists in our community.
Education Program
Coming May 3rd
Arcs and Angels
The Arcs/Angles/Sound exhibition, featuring Tony Armeni's sculptures and artwork from his former students, peers, and the arts community, will be on display at the Trumbull Art Gallery from May 3 to June 27. The opening reception is on May 3, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, and free to the public.
This exhibition pays tribute to Tony Armeni for his decades of work as an artist, educator, and musician in the Mahoning Valley. His sculptures are included in both national and local collections, such as the Butler Institute of American Art, the Ward Beecher Planetarium, and various locations in Youngstown. In addition to his visual art, Armeni performs music and hosts "Tony Armeni & Friends: An Experiment in Group Dynamics" at local venues
Sound plays a transformative role in this exhibition. Curated by Robyn E. Maas, the exhibit encourages 35 artists to explore sound through artwork, either within the pieces themselves, as part of installations, or through visual representations of sound. Sound was not a requirement.
Arcs/Angles/Sound includes video, painting, ceramics, sculpture, mixed media, installations, and photography. Participating artists are Tony Amrich, Steph Blair, Nea Bristol, Shaye Cahill, Carole Conatser, Jim Conti, Dragana Crnjak, Shawn Crum, Thomas Cvetkovich, Michelle Davis, Lindsay DeLullo, Sharon Dundee, Joseph D'Uva, Terence Fetchet, Michael Green, Edward Hallahan, Kathryn Infante, Connie Kolarik, Carl Leet, Adrien Lucas, Missy McCormick, Elise McKeown Skolnick, Mia Mondora, William Mullane, Tony Nicholas, John Guy Petruzzi, Max Scabilloni, Tracy Segreti, Dana Sperry, Gary Taneri, Abbey Wendle, Dovey Wuvey, Summer Zickefoose, Bryn Zellers, and Joseph Zordich.
Arcs/Angles/Sound is co-sponsored by LOOP Youngstown, a non-profit dedicated to incubating the arts.
Robyn E. Maas is an artist, curator, and designer. She also serves as an Arts Representative and Consultant for LOOP Youngstown.
Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society Members Exhibition
Dan Rauschenbach Recent Watercolors
Thomas Sewickley
Opening Reception March 8th, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Show Closes: April 18, 2025
Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society
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Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society
"It is a great pleasure to be exhibiting the talented artist members from the Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society. Their dedication to advancing the art of watercolor painting and their contributions to the local and state art communities are truly commendable. We are honored to showcase their work and celebrate the vibrant creativity that flourishes within our region."
About the Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society: The Mahoning Valley Watercolor Society was founded in 1982 by eleven area artists with the goal of encouraging local watercolor painters. The Society provides watercolorists with a place to share work, learn more about watercolor techniques, and get information about watercolor-related events in the community. The MVWS donates to the Ohio Watercolor Society and contributes prize money to local and state shows. Membership in this organization is open to all artists, from beginners to professionals, who work in water-based media.
Information about the MVWS can be found at the website: https://mvartists.org/
Artists Participating in the exhibition:
Suzanne Anzellotti
Mike Cantelmo
Sharon Clifford
Brenda Myers Cohen
Carole Damschroder
Susan Dryburgh
Elizabeth A. Ford
Shari Fry
Ed Gorse
Alison Gregg
Millie Hawkins
Edward Jones
Karen Nelson
Jody Nudell
Lynne Rosati
Cynthia Sahyoun
Millie Hawkins, Chagrin Horse Show Watercolor
Lynne Rosati, Asiatic Lilies Watercolor
Jody Nudell Breakfast at Barranqulla Watercolor
Allison Gregg, Bodie Island Lighthouse
Thomas Sewickley
Rounding out this exhibition is the work of local artist Thomas Sewickley. This exhibit features works done in soft pastels on sandpaper using a heavy color palette to add energy and to manipulate temperature and contrast. Tom has become well known for his pastel work that uses sandpaper as his underlying surface, which allows him to create multiple layers of pastel pigment in a way that mimics a painterly surface.
In 2024, he had a very successful one-man exhibition at the Weller Gallery inside the Davis Center at Fellows Riverside Gardens. He has also had his work exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art’s Annual Area Artists Exhibition, where he has won multiple awards.
About Artist Thomas Sewickley
Thomas Sewickley is a lifelong area resident, raised on the North Side of Youngstown. Sewickley attended St. Edward's School and Ursuline High School, later going on to attend Youngstown State University to earn his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), along with a Master of Arts (MA) in Curriculum and Instruction from Kent State University. Sewickley is currently the Digital Art Technologies (Computer Animation, 2D and 3D Design, Photoshop) teacher at Warren G. Harding High School and has been employed at the district for 28 years. He is married and has two adult children.
Dan Rauschenbach
Dan is exhibiting a series of landscapes and seascapes done as he traveled throughout the East Coast of the United States, from Maine to Washington, D.C. Additionally, he includes in this exhibition some familiar landscapes from our Valley, including those in Mill Creek Park.
Daniel works to capture the impressions of landscapes in a wistful style, using bold colors and uniquely strong designs to create a style all his own. He has been influenced by the industrial Midwest and romantic New England seascapes, incorporating these cultural wonders into his work. His passion, dedication, and love of his craft shine through each piece.
With his BFA in ceramics from Youngstown State University and years of experience living and setting up shop on the East Coast as well as in the Midwest, Rauschenbach brings his life experiences into all his mediums.
Rauschenbach is currently in private collections in nearly all 50 states and Europe.
The Area Student Art Exhibition
January 18 - Open School Show
February 15 - Close School Show
Opening: Saturday January. 18th,2025
4pm-6pm
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Archive 2023& 2024
In The Gallery...
Clay@TAG Invitational:
"OUR CLAY JOURNEY"
September 28 - November 2, 2024
Reception: September 28 6-8 PM
A collection of work handcrafted by both current and emerging clay artists in the Clay@TAG Studio from July 1, 2021 to the present day.
Curated by: Kat Devadan - Veronique Gerard - Stephanie L. Sferra
58th TAG / RAA Annual
Trumbull Art Gallery / Random Acts of Artists
Juried Exhibition @ TAG
Salon des Refusés @ Art on Park
July 13, - August 29, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 2024
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Calendar:
Pick up of declined work not being displayed at Art on Park, Friday. July 5th: noon - 4:00pm / Saturday, July 6th: 11:00 am – 3:00pm. Special times can be arranged via an appointment by calling Gallery Director, Bill Mullane @ 330-719-1199.
Click Here to Download the TAG / RAA Annual Entry Results
Juror: Savannah Schroll Guz
Savannah Schroll Guz’s work is in private collections from NYC to San Diego and has been shown in Asheville (NC), Cleveland, Harrisburg (PA), Hudson (NY), Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Rochester, St. Louis, New York City, Weirton (WV), Wheeling, and York (PA). Representing the state of West Virginia, Guz is one of the 36 artists involved in the Her Flag project (www.herflag.com), which has been on view on the facades of both the Clinton Library in Little Rock (AR) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington (DC).
Statistics:
95 Artists entered 176 pieces in the TAG/RAA Annual
68 artists had 87 pieces accepted into the TAG/RAA Annual.
39 Artists have 50 pieces being exhibited at the ART ON PARK Salon des Refusés
AWARDS
The Juror Gave Awards to Five Artists for Their Entries.
Samantha Batista
Carolyn Dixon Hrusovsky
Ron Krygowski
Paul Santone Sr.
Gail Trunick
Juror’s Statement
It was with genuine pleasure that I reviewed the 176 pieces submitted to this year’s Trumbull Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition. Both the response to the call for work and the strength of each submission reveal a passionate and engaged creative community, which is beautiful to see. Of the 87 pieces on display, each was chosen for its visual power, both alone and in concert with the other works. And there are some tremendously impressive pieces, including the five works that received awards. These awards were given in response to works’ creative presence, technical brilliance, and visionary nature.
If your work was not selected to appear in this year’s TAG show, please do not be dissuaded from creating or submitting next year. Instead, let your creative resolve be galvanized. After all, James McNeill Whistler, Gustave Courbet, and Edouard Manet were just three of the now-iconic painters rejected from the 1863 Paris Salon. Their work appeared in the inaugural Salon des Refusés, an exhibition that ultimately gave birth to the Impressionist movement. So please keep creating and submitting. You have a unique voice to share.
To the Trumbull Art Gallery family and to the 95 artists who submitted their work, I express my deep gratitude. This region is rich in creative strength, and your energy inspires me as an artist.
Savannah Schroll Guz
Jennifer Hill
Adrien Lucas
Savannah Schroll Guz
2024 Area Schools Student Exhibition
Open: Saturday, April 6
Reception: Saturday, April 6, 5-7:00 pm
Closing Reception May 4, 2024 6:00- 8:00 pm
Left: Adrien and Jim Lucas
Artists Participating
in Tribute Exhibit
This is Not Nostalgia
Works of James and Adrien Lucas
+ reunion tribute of works from colleagues, students & community
“This is not Nostalgia” is open through March 29th.
We have added a “Closing Fond Farewell Reception” on Friday, March 29 from 6-8pm.
Reunion Artists and Patrons can pick-up the work at the end of the night on March 29.
Work can also be picked-up on Saturday, March 30, 11-3pm.
This is Not Nostalgia is an art show curated by Robyn E. Maas, opening at Trumbull Art Gallery on Saturday, February 24, 2024, 6-8:00pm. Presenting original paintings and sculptures by James Lucas, a Youngstown State University art professor who died of Covid in 2020. Lucas was known for his detailed, textured style in both paintings and artwork. Unfortunately he destroyed much of his artwork over the lengthy years of his lengthy career. It was only by accident that his daughter Adrien found a box of slides containing images of his vast history of art work that was headed for the garbage can. She asked her father if she could have the slides digitized and thankfully he agreed. James Lucas’ art was thankfully “found” and would have been lost had he not agreed to letting his daughter save the slides!
Adrien Lucas had been working in what she calls her “thread art” focusing mainly on portraits of famous people who had died in tragic endings titled “Bad Exits.” When she looked through the found “lost” art of her father’s she was inspired to recreate some of the pieces she had remembered from her childhood hanging in their homes or pieces from the 90s that he had destroyed. Her recreations of her father’s art are smaller and decorative. With a background in costume design and vintage clothing sales and repair, the embellishments to the newly revived pieces took on a blend of Luke and Adrien. Thankfully her father got to see all of the pieces before he died; and when it was clear he approved of what she was doing. It was only recently that she finished them with the push from curator Maas.
This is Not Nostalgia is celebration of James Lucas’ art and is united with numerous pieces of artwork by colleagues from Youngstown State University who worked with him from the 1960s up until his retirement in the 1990s, also included are artworks by students who were influenced by him and many who became close friends. This is an art show not to be missed. Considering that arts and music in higher institutions and public schools are under attack, under funded and being neutered in this nation, this is an art show that illustrates that art is an act that brings people together, forms lifetime communities and continues to inspire the ones left living.
In The Gallery January 11 - February 9, 2024
